@misc{10481/99904,
year = {2014},
month = {8},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/99904},
abstract = {Time-driven simulation methods in traditional CPU architectures perform well and precisely when simulating small-scale spiking neural networks. Nevertheless, they still have drawbacks when simulating large-scale systems. Conversely, event-driven simulation methods in CPUs and time-driven simulation methods in graphic processing units (GPUs) can outperform CPU time-driven methods under certain conditions. With this performance improvement in mind, we have developed an event-and-time-driven spiking neural network simulator suitable for a hybrid CPU-GPU platform. Our neural simulator is able to efficiently simulate bio-inspired spiking neural networks consisting of different neural models which can be distributed heterogeneously in both small layers and large layers or subsystems. For the sake of efficiency, the low-activity parts of the neural network can be simulated in CPU by using event-driven methods whilst the high-activity subsystems can be simulated in either CPU (a few neurons) or GPU (thousands or millions of neurons) by using time-driven methods. In this work, we have undertaken a comparative study of these different simulation methods. For benchmarking the different simulation methods and platforms, we have used a cerebellar-inspired neural-network model consisting of a very dense granular layer and a Purkinje layer with a smaller number of cells (according to biological ratios). Thus, this cerebellar-like network includes a dense diverging neural layer (increasing the dimensionality of its internal representation and sparse coding) and a converging neural layer (integration) as many other biologically inspired and also artificial neural networks.},
keywords = {co-processing CPU-GPU},
keywords = {EDLUT},
keywords = {event-driven execution},
keywords = {real time},
keywords = {simulation},
keywords = {spiking neural network},
keywords = {time-driven execution},
title = {A Spiking Neural Simulator Integrating Event-Driven and Time-Driven Computation Schemes Using Parallel CPU-GPU Co-Processing: A Case Study},
doi = {10.1109/TNNLS.2014.2345844},
author = {Naveros, Francisco and Luque, Niceto R. and Garrido, Jesús A. and Carrillo, Richard R. and Anguita, Mancia and Ros, Eduardo},
}